Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake)

Location: London (Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite)
Contract Length: Initial 3-Month Contract
Rate: Up to £500 per day
Start Date: ASAP

The Role
We're supporting a fast-growing, FCA-regulated financial services organisation seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the evolution of its Snowflake-based Data Lakehouse platform. This is a hands-on contract role that will see you working across the full data life cycle, from architecture and ingestion through to modelling, governance, and business intelligence. You'll play a key role in delivering data solutions that support trading, operational, and commercial decision-making across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and enhance a Snowflake-based Data Lakehouse environment.
• Develop scalable data models and enterprise data warehouse solutions.
• Build and optimise dbt pipelines using best practice frameworks.
• Deliver business-critical reporting and dashboards through Power BI.
• Drive performance optimisation, governance, and data quality initiatives.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Essential Experience:

• Financial Services, Trading, Capital Markets, or FinTech experience.
• Proven experience designing and delivering Data Warehouse or Lakehouse solutions on Snowflake.
• Advanced SQL and data modelling expertise, including dimensional modelling and star/snowflake schemas.
• Strong commercial experience with dbt
• Extensive Power BI experience
• Strong Snowflake optimisation experience, including warehouse sizing, clustering, query profiling, and cost management.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.